May102017

Dog tags of the more than 58,000 service men and women who died
in the Vietnam War hang from the ceiling of the National Vietnam
Veterans Art Museum in Chicago. The 10-by-40-foot sculpture, entitled
Above and Beyond, was designed by Ned Broderick and Richard Stein.

Here are 6 things you don’t know about acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe — but should

Following President Donald Trump giving James Comey his walking papers,
the FBI is now being lead by acting Director Andrew G. McCabe. McCabe
rose to Deputy Director during the administration of President Barack
Obama, but was not an Obama appointee. The position of Deputy Director
is the highest ci...

May092017

““Mr. Trump, your presidency? I love your presidency. I call it Disgrace the Nation. You’re not the POTUS. You’re the BLOATUS. You’re the glutton with the button. You’re a regular Gorge Washington. You’re the presi-dunce, but you’re turning into a real prick-tator. Sir, you attract more skinheads than free Rogaine. You have more people marching against you than cancer. You talk like a sign language gorilla who got hit in the head. In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s [censored] holster. Your presidential library is going to be a kids’ menu and a couple of Juggs magazines. The only thing smaller than your hands is your tax returns, and you can take that any way you want.”

April282017

A New Hampshire Republican State Representative anonymously created the “Red Pill” subreddit.

Wow.

these aren’t just bullshitter dweebs in their mom’s basements trolling the internet, these are men who formulate the way we implement laws and who govern the way we live our lives.

^^^ Hello, yes, everyone needs to see this. It’s not always a bunch of nobodies trolling around on 4chan. It’s, doctors, lawyers, judges, businessmen, bankers, law enforcement, etc. People who have pulls on society. They literally don’t see other groups besides themselves as human or equal

…holy shit like this is bad really really bad but so much clearly so if you’ve ever read the scum that floats to the top of the Red Pill. Like basically he was just outed as the creator of a neo-nazi misogynist pro-rape forum explicitly to recruit online loners and groom them like it’s EVERYTHING we’ve been saying these people do but this is like, the hive.

For the anon asking why not trust red pill guys

Fuck Conservatives

Fun fact: the Red Pill was 90% of the reason I left reddit. I think it’s important everyone understands why, without having to subject yourselves to actually looking at the subreddit.

The Red Pill is a confluence of gross misogyny, rape culture, and vile social darwinism, all tied up under the banner of it being the “truth” behind some grand lie that is PC culture; that is to say, taking the red pill to withdraw yourself from the Matrix, a metaphor nearly as dated as the ideals they espouse.

If you think I’m exaggerating, I’m not. I spent nearly two years on reddit before toxic bullshit like this drove me out. These people build an elaborate construct about treating women like property and sexualizing children because ~evolution~ programmed them to like it, and ~evolution~ can’t possibly be wrong, as though club-wielding Neanderthal brutes are something to aspire to and not something we left behind millennia ago.

They’ve created an incredibly detailed fantasy about how women are evolutionarily predisposed to react to certain behaviors of “alpha males” (another false equivalence; the theory of the alpha male comes from a since-disproved theory about wolf behavior), and how the trick to success in sex is about taking on these characteristics which, spoiler alert, explicitly encourage treating women like garbage.

I cannot overstate how incredibly toxic the Red Pill is and how disgustingly large the community became by the time I left reddit. I wish I could say I was surprised that a Republican senator founded it, but this is the kind of shit they’ve been legislating for years.

April272017

Understaffing, triple bunking, and overcharging are on the private prison’s laundry list of issues

The Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General yesterday released a revealing audit
of operations at the Leavenworth Detention Center and its contract with
the U.S. Marshals Service. It may be an indication of similar
malfeasance throughout the USMS contracted correctional system, which
currently includes 15 prisons in its sphere.

April252017

One of Congress's responsibilities is to check and balance executive
power. Stanford professor Martin Hellman argues in a recent article that
it should act on that responsibility by examining the intelligence
Trump used to justify bombing Syria....[weiter]...